You might not know the name Val Lewton - I didn't: He was a low-budget horror movie producer from the WWII era who made such classics as Cat People and I Walked with a Zombie, among others. This Monday at 7:00PM (CST), Martin Scorsese discusses Lewton's works on TCM, followed by a series of the producer's films.
Scorsese discusses how he watched Lewton's films continuously while filming The Departed, and credits several sequences in his Academy Award-winning film to Lewton's works. Lewton was a producer, not a director, but Scorsese and his co-documentarian, Kent Jones, agree that he was the real force at work behind these gems.
While Lewton died at the young age of 46, his seemingly disposable canon of films have managed to survive and delight audiences to the present day, which is very impressive. Check it out Monday night.
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